STUDIES IN ROMANS

LESSON 24

SHOULD WE SIN TO BRING MORE GRACE?

Romans 6:1-7 (KJV)

6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? ² God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? ³ Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? ⁴ Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: ⁶ Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. ⁷ For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Romans 6:1-7 (CEB)

6 So what are we going to say? Should we continue sinning so grace will multiply? ² Absolutely not! All of us died to sin. How can we still live in it? ³ Or don’t you know that all who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ Therefore, we were buried together with him through baptism into his death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too can walk in newness of life. ⁵ If we were united together in a death like his, we will also be united together in a resurrection like his. ⁶ This is what we know: the person that we used to be was crucified with him in order to get rid of the corpse that had been controlled by sin. That way we wouldn’t be slaves to sin anymore, ⁷ because a person who has died has been freed from sin’s power.

1.   MORE SIN = MORE GRACE? V.1

Ø  It does not follow that sinning more brings more grace

2.   GOD FORBID V.2

Ø  CEB – Absolutely not! Dead can’t ‘live’ in sin

3.   BAPTISM OF DEATH RAISED TO LIFE v.3-4

Ø  Water baptism pictures dying to sin (submersion)

Ø  It also pictures rising to new life (this is where we should live)

Ø  Just like Jesus Christ was raised by the Father to a new life

Ø  So we will be united in the likeness of His resurrection

4.   OLD MAN CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST v.5-6

Ø  Body of sin (sinful way of living) dead

Ø  That we from this time forward should not serve sin

5.   DEAD MEN DON’T SIN v.7

Ø  Freed from sin’s power – don’t have to sin anymore!

PRAISE GOD, WE ARE FREE!  WE DON’T HAVE TO SIN.

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